Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. Elizabeth Gilbert dark letting-go beautiful The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. Elizabeth Gilbert leaving impossible love Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss. Elizabeth Gilbert serenity discipline energy But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. Elizabeth Gilbert rome creativity believe You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. Elizabeth Gilbert keep-moving light moving Take me someplace where we can be silent together. Elizabeth Gilbert take-me silent together Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. Elizabeth Gilbert intimacy heartbreak love Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities. Elizabeth Gilbert falling-in-love choices moving Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert misery tragedy add There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. Elizabeth Gilbert dog feet book The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga. Elizabeth Gilbert rome yoga way This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. Elizabeth Gilbert intimacy stories dark God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. Elizabeth Gilbert girl inspirational funny Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. Elizabeth Gilbert being-single single-life loneliness You have no idea how strong my love is! Elizabeth Gilbert best-love strong love-is I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!! Elizabeth Gilbert i-love-myself love-you needs Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. Elizabeth Gilbert creativity attention giving Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. Elizabeth Gilbert christian faith dark The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. Elizabeth Gilbert divorce running doors I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? Elizabeth Gilbert motivation inspiration ideas
